The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1887-04-27

| ana VcfN wealthy plaHJcF anu SidVe
holder in his native state and later
| in Missouri. Gen. Jones' third wife
is, as also were his former wives, a
native Of Virginia She was Miss
Hanna f. Elson, and survives her
husband, in Texas, where he married
her after bis removal to that state
in 1851. He had one son and sever
al daughters by each wife, and all
but two of the Surviving children have
married. Two of the sons are liv-
ing, Rice Jones, by the third wife,
tand VIM. Ashley Jones, the first
child by his first wife. The latter, Mr..
Vim. Ashley Jones, was long resi-
dent OF Dubuque, but has for some
years past been IN Dakota. Mrs.
Jones. his wife, with their daughter,
Miss Halle +. Jones, and one son,
S. j. Jones, are residents of this
city. Two sons (grandsons of Gen.
Augustus Jones) reside in Mime
sota-Augustus Drysale Jones at
Willard and w. A. Burt Jones at
st. Paul.
For many years past Gen. Angus
tus Jones was member of the
Episcopal church, and he died in
that communion. Honorable and
upright in all things throughout
| life, he had no fears of death or
hearalter, and sank peacefully to
rest eternal uttering the last words
that fell from his lips, 81 am going
to Sleep" addressed to his wife and
daughter who knelt beside his dy
ing bed and upon whose bowed
heads he had placed his hands In fl
nal blessing.
The father of Gen. Jones was
Hon. Rice Jones, a native of Wales,
a profound jurist, mathematician
and lingulst, and who died justice
of the supreme court of Missouri in
1924. His family of six sons all be
came men OF distinction, among
them our own eminent fellow citl
zen, Gen. George Wallace Jones,
with whose history most of our peo-
pie are familiar.
The other sons were, first, Hon.
Rice Jones, a regular graduate in
both medicine and law, "a man ofex
trardinary brllliancy of intellect and
great promise" says ex-Gov. Rev
nolds IN his History of Illinois, and
who, at the time Of his death at the
early age of %, was a member of the
territorial legislature of Illinois and
"the leader of his party in that ter
ritory." He fought duel with ex-
Governor Bond in 1909 and was at
terwards assassinated by Bonds Sec
ond. Second, Hon.John 4 Jones, who
was postmaster general under the
three forms OF the Republic Of Tex
as provisional, ad interim and con
stitutional) and fellow patriot with
and personal friend of Burhet, Hous
ton, Lamar, Travis, Bowie, Crockett
and other noted Texans. He was
one of the two executors 0. Col.
Travis's wll-the other being ex-
President Smith. Third, Hon. Nv
ers Fisher Jones, who was a mem
Der of the MISSOURI Legislature and
afterwards removing to Texas, be
came there a locallynoted Indian
Fighter One OF his sons, Oscar
Perry Jones, was a soldier in the
Mexican war, and another, Andrew
Thomson Jones, was young officer
in the confederate army and thrice
made prisoner, Fourth, William
Z, Jones, who at the time of his
death, from cholera, in 1884, was a
past midshipman In the United
States navy, and existing letters of
prominent naval officers testify,
promising young officer He had
acted as lieutenant and shortly
would have had that rank formerly
conferred upon him. There were
only two sisters OF these brothers.
One married Hon. John Scott, an EN-
inent lawyer, state senator of
Missouri, and afterwards United
States senator from that state. Mr..
George ID. Scott OF this city is a
son of his. One of his daughters is
the wife of the eminent California
lawyer Hon. Samuel Montford Will
son (brother of Judge L. S. Wilson
of Dubuque,) and among other de
cendants of his are the wife Of Hon.
j. Russell Jones, of Chicago, ex u. |
). minister to Belgium, and the wild
ow of the late Gen. O. E. Babcock.
The other sister married Hon. An
drew Scott, learned jurist, who
for years was u. 5. Judge for Ar
kansas territory. He has many de-
cendants, among whom are numbers
of the most eminently respectable
citizens and professional men Of Ar
kansas.